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There are now 4,008 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county as a whole.

Four more deaths were announced at hospital trusts operating in Lancashire today - two at Blackpool and two at Southport & Ormskirk.

You can see breakdown below.

Confirmed cases of Covid-19by borough as of May 8:

Blackburn with Darwen - 364 (+7), 244.4 per 100,000

Blackpool - 503 (+1), 361.1 per 100,000

Burnley - 176 (+1), 198.8 per 100,000

Chorley - 297 (+2), 254.2 per 100,000

Fylde - 205 (-), 257 per 100,000

Hyndburn - 130 (+2), 160.9 per 100,000

Lancaster - 746 (+2), 517.2 per 100,000

Pendle - 160 (+2), 175 per 100,000

Preston - 366 (+4), 258.1 per 100,000

Ribble Valley - 90 (-), 149.9 per 100,000

Rossendale - 157 (+2), 221.5 per 100,000

South Ribble - 202 (+1), 182.8 per 100,000

West Lancs - 323 (+3), 283.5 per 100,000

Wyre - 289 (+3), 259.8 per 100,000

Leaders of all the devolved nations have rejected Boris Johnson’s new “stay alert” advice in favour of keeping the “stay at home” message in the fight against coronavirus amid criticism that the new slogan is unclear.

The Prime Minister was dropping his stricter message as he prepared to unveil his plans to ease the lockdown in a broadcast to the nation on Sunday evening.

He is now telling the public to “stay at home as much as possible”, keep two metres apart when going out and “limit contact” with other people.

But the Government’s efforts to maintain a unified UK-wide response to the pandemic seemed to be in jeopardy as the devolved administrations rejected his message.

The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said they had not been consulted over the “stay alert, control the virus and save lives” slogan.

Opposition politicians and a scientist advising the Government criticised the new message and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first she had heard of “the PM’s new slogan” was in newspaper reports.

After a Cobra meeting with the PM and devolved leaders, Ms Sturgeon told the Westminster Government not to deploy the stay alert message north of the border, warning the “vague and imprecise” slogan could be “catastrophic”.

The First Minister said she does not know what “stay alert means”, adding: “Presumably we all live our lives in normal times staying alert to danger.”

She told her daily briefing that the lockdown remained firmly in place in Scotland but said her citizens could take unlimited exercise from Monday.

Ms Sturgeon was not asking additional businesses to open or for people to start returning to work.

And she said she does not expect Downing Street’s immediate changes to be “significant”, with any differences to Scotland being “relatively minor” for now.

Her Welsh counterpart, Mark Drakeford, said the “stay home” message has not changed in Wales and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster also said the nation will continue to use the “stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives” message.

Downing Street sought to explain the “control the virus” aspect, saying the public could do that by keeping the rate of infection down by “staying alert and following the rules”.

“This is how we can continue to save lives and livelihoods as we start to recover from coronavirus,” a No 10 spokesman said.

But behavioural expert Professor Susan Michie, who is a member of the scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage), said the new slogan is “a long way from” being clear and consistent.

“Dropping the ‘stay at home’ message from the main slogan in favour of generalised alertness may be taken as a green light by many to not stay at home and begin socialising with friends and other activities that increase the risk of transmission,” the UCL scientist told the PA news agency.

“This could potentially undermine the good work over the last few weeks that has seen impressively sustained high levels of adherence by the public in what for many are very challenging situations.”

In a speech at 7pm, Mr Johnson will outline his “road map” to a new normality with a warning system to track the outbreak, while official figures suggest the UK death toll has passed 36,800.